International Network for Trans Depathologization
L * s activists and groups that sign this document and formed the Network Despathologization International Trans Identities publicly denounce, once again, psychiatrization of our identities and the serious consequences of "sexual identity disorder or gender" (TIG). Similarly, we make visible the violence done to intersex people through the current medical procedures.
With "psychiatricization" name the practice of defining and treating transsexuals under the statute of mental disorder. We refer also to the confusion of identities and non-regulatory bodies (outside the dominant cultural order) pathological bodies and identities. The Psychiatrization psychiatric medical institutions control over gender identities. The official practice of these institutions, motivated by national interests, religious, economic and political works on the bodies of people by protecting and reproducing the pairing of male and female, making this exclusive position of a natural reality and "real." This binomial, presupposes only two bodies (male or female) and associates a specific behavior to each of them (male or female), along which has traditionally regarded heterosexuality as the only possible relationship between them. Today, denouncing this paradigm, has used the argument of biology and nature to justify the existing social order, we show its social effects to end its political pretensions.
bodies that anatomically correspond to the current western medical classification are listed under the heading of intersex condition, "per se", is considered pathological. The medical classification, however, continues even today without being questioned. Transsexualism is also conceived as a reality in itself problematic. Gender ideology which psychiatry, however, still remains unchallenged.
legitimization of social norms that constrain our experiences and feelings means invisible and pathologizing the other options, and mark a path that does not question the political dogma that underpins our society: the existence, unique and exclusive of only two ways of being and feeling. If intervention is invisible to intersex newborns (that * s with functional genitalia) with standard treatment and violent will, if what it is to eliminate the possibility of these bodies and to veto the existence of differences.
The paradigm inspired the actual treatment procedures transsexuality and intersexuality makes these medical procedures of binary standard. "Normalization" as they reduce the diversity to only two ways to live, and inhabiting the world: those considered statistically and politically "normal." And with our critique of these processes also resist having to adapt to the psychiatric definitions of man and woman to live our identities, so that the value of our lives is recognized without the renunciation of diversity in which we are constituted. We obey no such documentation, or label, or definition imposed by the institution care. We demand our right to call ourselves. Currently
transsexualism is considered a "gender identity disorder, mental disorders classified in ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization) and DSM-IV-R (Diagnostic and Manual Statistical of Mental Disorders Psychiatric Association North-American). These classifications are those that lead to and psychiatrists around the world at the time of establishing diagnosis. They make a mistake just by chance: the confusion of the effects of transphobia with reassignment. It is invisible social violence that is exercised on those who do not conform to gender norms. Thus, actively ignoring the problem is not gender identity, is transphobia.
The revision of the DSM-IV-R is a process that began two years ago, and aims to determine changes in the list of diseases. In recent months we have made public the names of psychiatrists who will decide the future of gender identity disorder (GID).
In front of the working group on the TIG are the Dr.Zucker (group leader) and Dr. Blanchard, among others. These psychiatrists are known for using reparative therapy on homosexuals and transsexuals, and are linked to clinics involved with intersex, not only did not intend to remove the disorder, but expanding its treatment to Niñ s * s to submit non-gender behaviors and applying them reparative therapies for the original role. In this sense, the U.S. trans movement has started to demand their expulsion from the group responsible for the revision of DSM. The International Network for Trans Identities Despathologization unreservedly join this demand.
pathologization transsexuality under the "gender identity disorder" is an extreme exercise of control and standardization. The treatment of this disorder is carried out in different centers around the world. In cases such as the English State is required passage through a psychiatric evaluation in the Units of Gender Identity, in some cases, is associated with a weekly check of our gender identity through group therapy and family and all kind of degrading processes that violate our rights. In the case of the English state, we must stress that any person wishing to change its name in the documentation or modify their bodies with hormones or operations must go through a psychiatric assessment.
Finally, we headed straight to the class policy. Our demands are clear:
We demand the withdrawal of transsexuality in the manual of mental disorders (DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10). Cessation of treatment on intersex babies.
* claim the right to change our name and sex on official documents without having to undergo any medical or psychological. We also think, firmly. that the state should not have any jurisdiction over our names, our bodies and our identities.
* We endorse the words of the feminist movement in the struggle for abortion rights and the right to own body assert our right to decide freely whether or not to modify our bodies to carry out our choice without bureaucratic impediments, political or economic, as well as outside of any type of medical coercion. We want health systems take positions regarding the sexual identity disorder, recognizing the transphobia that rating, and revise their health care program to transsexuality psychiatric evaluation by an unnecessary step, and the psychotherapeutic a voluntary option. We also demand the cessation of operations at newly-tenacity * s intersex.
* Denounce the extreme vulnerability and difficulties in accessing the labor market of the trans community. We demand granted access to the workplace and the implementation of specific policies to reverse the marginalization and discrimination of our community. We also demand health conditions and safety for sex workers and an end to police harassment of these persons and sex trafficking.
* This vulnerability is heightened in the case of transgender immigrants, who come to our country fleeing from situations of extreme violence. We demand the immediate granting of political asylum in these cases while we claim that the equal rights of migrants. Denounce the effects of current immigration policy on the most vulnerable social sectors.
* While we cry that we are not victims but active beings with the capacity to decide on our own identity, we also remember all assaults, murders and suicides of transgender people because of transphobia. Signal the system to blame for this violence. Silence is complicity.
finish showing the extreme rigidity with imposing the pair man / woman as sole and exclusive option, combination that is built and can be questioned. Our very existence proves the falsity of these polar opposites and points to a plural and diverse reality. Diversity dignify today.
When medicine and define us as disordered state * s make it clear that our identities, our lives, disrupt their system. Therefore we say that the disease is not in us * s but in the gender binary.
announce that the International Network for Trans Identities Despathologization arises to strengthen global coordination around a primary objective: the discontinuation of transsexuality from the DSM-TR in 2012. A first step for diversity, a first strike to transphobia.
Given the diversity of our bodies and our identities!
Transphobia us sick!
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